We should be energy independent

It steams me every time I think America could be energy-independent. The oil and gas is at our fingertips. It's there for us to drill, produce and pipeline to refineries to make cheap America gasoline.

We even have a pipeline from Canada coming that will give us another 800,000 barrels of oil a day.

It's called the Keystone Pipeline and its completion is stalled by politics.

With all the hoopla about the Keystone Pipeline and how President Obama is accused of stopping it, we need to clear up a lot of misconceptions.

Obama doesn't like the pipeline, but OK'd it.

I'm sure not an Obama supporter, but give credit where credit is due.

The wacky governor of Nebraska stopped the pipeline just as it was going to start. He decided he didn't like the pipeline route. So he conveniently waited until just before the elections and stopped it. (He's a Republican and knew Obama would get the blame.) He put thousands of Americans out of work.

He's not the only one. Environmental groups led by both conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats are trying to stop it.

Now a new route has been picked by the Nebraska governor. But wait - now the fed government will have to make another environmental study to OK the new route. (These guys already knew this would happen.) Another stall tactic.

Every day we are buying foreign oil. We send our American dollars to countries that hate us. And our own elected officials won't work together to get us energy-independent.

Every day they delay is truly a sad day.

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We should be energy independent

I just filled my SUV up with $3.60-a-gallon gasoline.It steams me every time I think America could be energy-independent. The oil and gas is at our fingertips. It's there for us to drill, produce